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The Kitten Programming Language

Kitten is a statically typed, stack-based functional programming language designed to be simple and fast. It is a concatenative language, combining aspects of imperative and pure functional programming. There is an introduction available and a tutorial in progress.

Features

Concatenative Programming

A compositional style of programming to make refactoring easier and improve code reuse.

Static Types

Type inference based on Hindley–Milner to help improve correctness and performance.

Permissions

A system of effect types to control where side-effects are allowed.

Deterministic Resource Management

Automatic management of memory and resources with no garbage collector.